On Tuesday 2002-03-12 at 15:41:22 +0100, Nando Dessena wrote:

> > > Hey, this language sounds like something even I could learn. <g>
> >
> > Wait until you learn that we use sex on subjects. A Car for instance is a
> > male, a table is "non-sex" and a book is female.
> > Now, each sex means different endings in different contexts.
>
> Apart from the fact that here a car is female and a book male, it goes
> exactly the same way in italian. :-)

The proper terms are "gender", "masculine" and "feminine", of course.
These are grammatical terms, whereas the others are biological terms.
No one really believes that books and cars are male and female!

Cheers,

David Trudgett